In one way, today's Advocate is an improvement on previous numbers;-it contains less poetry. Not only this, but one of the two pieces published is very creditable. "Cpnthia. A Pantoum," by Louis How, has no interest except for the peculiar style of rhyming which the author effects; but the sonnet by Treadwell Cleveland, Jr., is worthy of notice in that it departs from the usual custom of Advocate sonnets and gives evidence of a foundation of ideas and sentiment not wholly obscured by the demands of rhyme and meter. The author has just been elected to the board of editors.

The prose articles fulfil the promise of the last number, and are all good. "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" is in more serious vein than is usual with the Advocate, and the "College Kodaks" are omitted; but with these exceptions there is no departure from the customary character of the work. "Grinder" as a Harvard type, is more interesting than his predecessors and is very well described by H. B. Eddy. His article, however, is hardly better than several of the others, and it is safe to say that all are above the standard in interest. "The Suspicions of Mrs. Buck," one of the two sketches by Arthur S. Pier, is a rather amusing bit of dialect, whether true to life or not; and W. A. Parker has done some very clever writing in "Love is Blind." As a whole, the number is very satisfactory.